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February 17, 2016

How to Prevent Running Injuries. Hint: Reduce your impact loading!

According to results from a recent study, the amount of foot pounding when runners strike the ground (also known as impact loading) has a strong relationship to your risk of being injured. You can read more about it here.

If you are a natural "hard" impact runner, the Harvard professor who lead the study suggests that just thinking about a soft landing, and increasing your cadence (by shortening your stride) will help reduce the intensity of your foot pounding.

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